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40 Cards in this Set
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Psychopathology
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Any pattern of emotions
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Hallucinations
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False sensory experiences that may suggest mental disorder. They can have other causes
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Delusions
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Extreme disorders of thinking involving persistent false beliefs. They are the hallmark of paranoid disorders
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Affect
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A term referring to emotion or mood
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Medical model
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The view that mental disorders are diseases that
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Social-cognitive-behavioral approach
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A psychological alternative to the medical model that views psychological disorder through a combination of the social
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DSM-IV (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders)
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published by the American Psychiatric Association; the most widely accepted psychiatric classification system in the United States
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Neurosis
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Before the DSM-IV
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Psychosis
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A disorder involving profound disturbances in perception
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Mood disorders
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Abnormal disturbances in emotion or mood
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Major depression
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A form of depression that does not alternate with mania
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Seasonal affective disorder (SAD)
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A form of depression believed to be caused by deprivation of sunlight
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Bipolar disorder
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A mental abnormality involving swings of mood from mania to depression
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Anxiety disorders
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Mental problems characterized mainly by anxiety. Anxiety disorders include panic disorder
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Generalized anxiety disorder
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A psychological problem characterized by persistent and pervasive feelings of anxiety
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Panic disorder
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A disturbance marked by panic attacks that have no obvious connection with events in the person's present experience. Unlike generalized anxiety disorder
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Agoraphobia
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A fear of public places and open spaces
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Phobias
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A group of anxiety disorders involving a pathological fear of a specific object or situation
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Preparedness hypothesis
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The notion that we have an innate tendency
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Obsessive-compulsive disorder
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A condition characterized by patterns of persistent
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Somatoform disorders
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Psychological problems appearing in the form of bodily symptoms or physical complaints
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Conversion disorder
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A type of somatoform disorder
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Hypochondriasis (aka Hypochondria)
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A somatoform disorder involving excessive concern about health and disease
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Dissociative disorder
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A group of pathologies involving "fragmentation" of the personality
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Dissociative amnesia
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A psychologically induced loss of memory for personal information
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Dissociative fugue
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Essentially the same as dissociative amnesia
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Depersonalization disorder
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An abnormality involving the sensation that mind and body have separated
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Dissociative identity disorder
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A condition in which an individual displays multiple identities
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Anorexia nervosa
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An eating disorder involving persistent loss of appetite that endangers an individual's health
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Bulimia nervosa
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An eating disorder characterized by eating binges followed by "purges
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Schizophrenia
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A psychotic disorder involving distortions in thoughts
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Diathesis-stress hypothesis
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In reference to schizophrenia
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Personality disorders
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Conditions involving chronic
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Narcissistic personality disorder
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Characterized by a grandiose sense of self-importance
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Antisocial personality disorder
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Characterized by a long-standing pattern of irresponsible behavior indicating a lack of conscience and a diminished sense of responsibility to others
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Borderline personality disorder
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An unstable personality given to impulsive behavior
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Autism
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A developmental disorder marked by disabilities in language
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Dyslexia
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A reading disability
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Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
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A developmental disability involving a short attention span
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Insanity
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A legal term
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